> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Royalty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: March 28, 2005 11:12 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [php_mysql] A beginners question about <....... />
>
>
> <rant>
> now there's one thing about XML that I tend to disagree with.
>
> The need for consistency in opening versus closing tags is something I
> understand and agree with whole-heartedly
>
> however, the ability to shorthand <br> ... </br> to <br /> is something I
> think is a major cop-out to the whole "every beginning statement needs a
> corresponding ending statement" concept. I just want to know whose (most
> likely plural in nature) pocketbook was deep enough to accomplish such a
> farce.
> </rant>
>
> or maybe I should have just typed it as
>
> <rant />
>
> Best Regards,
> Mike
The "empty tag" concept was in the very first XML working draft
document published in 1996 (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114). No one was
used any "deep-pocket resources" to persuade the, at the time, 60 members of
the working group to include it. It's just a plain good idea to allow the
empty tag shorthand notation, because it's unambiguous, and it's terser
without being harder to read.
The best part about the empty tag feature is that if you don't like
it, you don't have to use it. But you do have to be able to understand it,
in case you see it appear in a document written by someone else.
- Nebu Pookins
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